American Experience: The Rockefellers

They feared the temptations of wealth. Yet their estate was once described as the kind of place God would have built - if he only had the money. They amassed a fortune that outraged a democratic nation, then gave much of it away. They were the closest thing this country had to a royal family, but they shunned the public eye, retreating behind the walls of their palatial home of Pocantico Hills, New York. The Rockefellers is the saga of four generations of a legendary American family whose name is synonymous with great wealth.

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